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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Dilettante ex-PM resigns to spend more time with his ego

Being a loser wasn't the legacy that Cameron wanted. He basked in his reputation for effortless success, of never doing anything as vulgar as trying but always winning. And whereas he saw his loyalty to his chums as Etonian honour, the rest of us saw it as crooked and corrupt favouritism. Unlike Blair, an insecure little man avaricious for wealth to prop his insecurity, for Cameron it's never been about money. He swims in a milieu of multi millionaires and takes money, privilege and exclusivity for granted. It was always power and respect and the trappings of office - the red boxes, bon-mots swapped with the Sovereign, armoured limos, the State aircraft and the red carpets and doors always being opened for him. As he returned to Parliament an abject and almost anonymous back-bencher with his old-man's bag amongst a scrum of SPADs and secretaries and having to open his own doors and walk from the car park it was clear that this was more than he could endure. Cameron was always a dilettante politician, a glib persuasive PR man with qualities of leadership but with one fatal flaw - what used to be termed LMF. Lack of Moral Fibre. We're well rid of him.

19 comments:

Ed P
said...

Despite his vacuous and easily-swayed "beliefs", he has inadvertently done the country much good with (the unintended result of) Brexit. Unlike the dreadful Blair, who has done lasting and irreversible damage to the UK. So despite being a lightweight in all aspects apart from media manipulation, overall he was not quite the worst PM ever.

The fatal flaw was arrogance born of elitism. He had a gilded life from birth. He never had to struggle to get on in life. He never mixed with the "great unwashed" so he neither understood, nor cared, that the British people didn't want the "legacy" he intended to create for them.

If he'd told the EU the deal they offered him was unacceptable, so he'd recommend we leave - or even maintained neutrality - he could still be Prime Minister.

Mrs May seems to have ditched the policy of chasing the votes of LibDems and is firmly pitching for Mrs Thatcher's Blue Collar Tories and UKIP voters.

No wonder Cameron's fuming; Mrs May has only been in Office for 3 months and she's already looking like the best PM since Thatcher.

Fully agree with your comments on the Cameroon, a man whose word certainly wasn't his bond, Eton seems to be producing a poorer product nowadays.

However, looking at many of the photos used by the MSM of the Cameroons together to illustrate his departure, I wonder if it isn't Sam who wears the trousers in that household? Could it be her displeasure at being the wife of a bog standard backbench MP that forced his hand?

Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer and knew well the value of a shopping basket of basic groceries; she also knew how hard it was for some to obtain those groceries. Although May is starting to look good, it would be too premature to state that she IS good. Time will tell.

Talking of time, I think that time will show Cameron to be the heir to Blair. He certainly will not come close to the worst PM of all time because that dreadful accolade goes to the absentee MP - Gordon Brown.

Even Gordon Brown ranks higher in my estimation than does David Cameron. At least GB deliberately prevented the UK joining the Euro, something for which we should be eternally grateful. He did scandalously sell gold, but arguably saved a great deal more by keeping the pound.

"almost anonymous back-bencher with his old-man's bag amongst a scrum of SPADs and secretaries" - you're not the first to call him a scrum-bag, of course.

BUT he did some good things even though he may not have meant to:

1. He did "get it" when the people said they didn't want UK to bomb Syria.2. He actually held That Referendum.

Possibly the thing I hold against him most is leading the Commons in a standing ovation for Blair. At that point it became clear what an exclusive, mutually agreeable club the whole how has become. Perhaps I should rank the revelation as another favour he did us. Does anyone have an list of the truly honourable Members who did not stand up and applaud?

Personally I feel avenged. I decided way back in 2008 to give him a fighting chance over his pledge vis-a-vis The Lisbon Treaty. He weaseled his way out of that one despite his "cast-iron guarantee". Further pronouncements endorsed by "Call me Dave" whereby at one stage or another we were "little Englanders, homophobes, xenophobes and gadflies. But his ill-chosen and ill-considered words of "Loonies, fruitcakes and closet racists" left me seething with fury. How dare he! Even Tiny Blur didn't go round openly abusing a large chunk of the voting population. Voting for leave and winning was fantastic, to see him resign was an unexpected bonus, but to see him so humiliated and broken is the icing on the cake.

Thank god we don't have to suffer his interminable scripted speeches every day of the week, heralded a day ahead by 'The PM will say' Could he never, ever make a statement as though he was having a conversation, without constantly looking down at the script?

Far from enthusing me I loathed the patronising demeanour that I should want to hear him daily like the old leader's of the USSR voices blaring out over street loudspeakers

In the pantheon of post-war political figures, Cameron - if he's at all mentioned - will be somewhere below Farage. That'll grind his gears for the rest of his life. He was a liar and a dissembler. The late, great Terry Thomas would have played so well.

The irony of William Hague - possibly one of the best reminuerated dinner speakers still troughing in the Commons - defending Cameron's decision in The Telegraph this morning was almost nauseating. Presumably Cameron has been hooked up for some gigs already by Hague's agent.

You're not wrong there, as a Remain voter and someone who'd disagree with most of your opinions, one of the reasons Remain lost was the arrogance and entitled attitude coming from Shameron and Gidiot, who acted as if they were going to win because they deserved it, rather than the validity of their arguments.

I consider Brexit a great blow to our country, and I know who brought it about, that massively-foreheaded tit. He almost succeeded in breaking up our country in 2014 and it looks like he's back for another round.

He was always a fake and a stuffed shirt, he hadn't been to Eton he would be ringing people up about the road accident they were in or their PPI insurance.

PS- Have you read Our Joe by Nick Timothy? Not only was Joe Chamerblain a serious figure- especially for me since my girlfriend lives in Birmingham- the wit and wisdom of its author is important since he's now a senior adviser and naturally we want to know the opinions of the man whose voice is being heard in the corridors of power. I ordered one from Conservative Hostory Group but it hasn't arrived yet.

"Cameron, who stood down as an MP on Monday, has refused to give evidence to the select committee. In one of his few reflections on his major military intervention, he blamed the Libyan people for failing to take their chance of democracy."

I was fooled by Blair, but I think that was largely due to my giving too much credence to the wall-to-wall adulation of him by the MSM (especially the BBC). Cameron I found easier to read, his lazy arrogance was very apparent from his "cast-iron" moment onward.

Given Blair's Iraq catastrophe, that Cameron went for regime change in Libya was grotesque. It was compounded by his wish to bomb Assad in 2013 followed by wishing to bomb Assad's enemies in 2015 without so much as a blink at his volte-face. I still don't know how much of all that was down to Cameron though, and how much to our less than inspired FCO.